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Monday, June 3, 2024
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy. Use this course to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Course Details:
Course begins June 3, 2024 at 7am ET and concludes on June 17, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. About 4 hours to complete – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educators.Complete all activities for a 4-hour certificate. Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
After completing this course you will be able to:
Explore a sound pedagogy for planning and implementing Holocaust education in the classroom.Identify forms of assistance provided to Jews by non-Jews during the Holocaust, including the Kindertransport.Examine the role and impact of antisemitism on rescue efforts.Discuss how the Kindertransport and other avenues of rescue were considered a “choiceless choice” for Jews.Explore how rescuers are both extraordinary and ordinary as well as the impact studying the choices of rescuers during the Holocaust can have on our choices today.Explore various resources and tools to support your teaching of the complex ideas of rescue and support in the context of the Holocaust.
To enroll, click here.
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Monday, June 3, 2024
at 9:00am -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
ESC 16 - Bell Street - High Plains
5800 Bell Street, Amarillo, 79109
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Description:
Monday, June 3, at Region 14 ESC. Featuring a virtual tour of our Holocaust/Shoah wing and a discussion of resources offered by the Museum.
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024
at 9:00am -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
ESC 16 - Bell Street - High Plains
5800 Bell Street, Amarillo, 79109
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Description:
How do you incorporate Holocaust Remembrance Week into your classroom in age appropriate ways? What are the best practices for teaching about the Holocaust? Join educators from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a day of learning about the Holocaust, lesson resources, and Upstander skills. Take an interactive, docent-led, virtual tour of the Museum's Holocaust Wing, and learn how your students can share in the same experience during the upcoming school year. Light continental breakfast and lunch included. Register Today!
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online virtual event
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Description:
The fates of lesbian women in Nazi Germany have long been contested. When the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism opened in Berlin in 2008 it was an occasion for protest. Lesbian activists were frustrated that the monument focused exclusively on the fates of gay men, insinuating that women had not also faced persecution. This talk by Samuel Clowes Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, recounts several life stories of lesbians who experienced the Nazi dictatorship, highlighting the many trajectories that queer women followed in those twelve years. It argues that lesbians did, in fact, face persecution, ranging from everyday harassment and surveillance all the way to imprisonment in concentration camps. At the same time, the talk recovers these women’s agency, contending that many of them resisted fascism with solidarity that cut across lines of class, race, and gender.
Samuel Clowes Huneke is assistant professor of history at George Mason University. A historian of modern Germany, his research focuses on gender and sexuality, legal history, and the history of democracy. He is the author of States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany and A Queer Theory of the State, and he is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
at 8:30am -
2:00pm
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Commission Meetings
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Location:
Barbara Jordan State Office Building
Room 2.006
1601 Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas 78711
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
(THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, June 5th,
2024 beginning at 8:30AM. Every quarter the
THGAAC holds a meeting, open to
the public, in order to review its current projects and initiatives.
The Commission invites any member of the public who might be interested
in its mission to this meeting.
Members of the public will have access and a means to participate in
this meeting, by two-way audio/video, by connecting to the video access
number identified below, by attending the meeting in person, or by
clicking on the link contained on the agency
website's event calendar. The video access number contained in this
notice is subject to change by the conference provider at any time.
Members of the public are encouraged to confirm the correct conference
access number/link 24 hours before the meeting by going to the agency
website. An electronic copy of the agenda will be available here. A
recording of the meeting will be available after June 5, 2024. To
obtain a recording, please contact Joy Nathan, at 512.463.8815 or via e-mail.
For public participants, after the meeting convenes, the presiding
officer will call roll of board members and then of public attendees.
Please identify yourself by name and state whether you would like to
provide public comment. You may also e-mail Joy Nathan
in advance of the meeting if you would like to provide public comment.
When the Commission reaches the public comment portion of the meeting,
the presiding officer will recognize you by name and give you an
opportunity to speak. All public comments will be limited to three (3)
minutes. All virtual participants are asked to keep their microphones muted when they are not providing public comment.
Zoom Video Conference Meeting ID: 865 5658 4044
Registration can be completed here.
The Commission may discuss and/or take action on any of the items listed in the agenda.
Note: The Commission may go into executive session (close its meeting
to the public) on any agenda item if appropriate and authorized by the
Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
at 11:00am -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Online
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Description:
THE WILD ONE illuminates the journey of unsung artist Jack Garfein (1930-2019) – Holocaust survivor, celebrated Broadway director, Actors Studio West co-founder, and controversial filmmaker. The film examines how his experience in Nazi concentration camps shaped his vision of acting as a survival mechanism and propelled his engagement with themes of violence, power, and racism in postwar America in two explosive films: THE STRANGE ONE (1957) and SOMETHING WILD (1961).THE WILD ONE explores the importance of his legacy as an artist who confronted censorship and reveals how art can draw on personal memory to better enlighten our present.
Watch the film THE WILD ONE before June 5th on your home device.A link will be provided to all who register.
Then join us as the film’s French producer, Chantal Perrin, speaks with Ori Z Soltes from Georgetown University in Washington DC about THE WILD ONE. Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society.A link will be provided to all who register.
Register here.
THE WILD ONE is produced by Louise-Salomé and Chantal Perrin for Petite Maison Production. It is written by Louise-Salomé and Sarah Contou-Terquem, in collaboration with Elizabeth Schub Kamir.
In a statement, Louise-Salomé said that “His films addressed critical issues: fascism, the military, the functioning of power and its perversity, the dangers of dogmatism, racial segregation, mental manipulation and rape. In other words, the many ways in which power, in whatever form it takes, seizes and appropriates the psychic reality of the individual. His preoccupation with freedom drives both the content of his cinema and his bold way of presenting it. His perception of what constitutes freedom is the secret dimension that animates his work.” (Leo Barraclough, Variety)
Chantal Perrin is a French producer and director and has been the executive of Petite Maison Production since 2006, supporting filmmakers with a unique voice, as well as contemporary artists (Sophie Calle, Terence Koh, Cindy Sherman) on projects in a wide range of formats. In 1982, “Atelier Lalanne,” her first movie as a director about sculptors Claude and François Lalanne, won first prize at the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Paris. She then began working as a first assistant director and line producer on films with directors Terry Gilliam, Adrian Lyne, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Claude Miller, Maurice Pialat, and Jean-Jacques Annaud, among others.Since then, she has produced and directed many documentaries for the TV channels ARTE, CANAL+, and France Television and works regularly with various national and international broadcasters. She has focused her efforts on exploring important social issues (i.e. Illegal Love, Go Green Citizens (Au Vert Citoyens), Traditional African Medicine at Keur Massar, Lyme Disease: A Silent Epidemic) and on depicting the lives and legacies of artists (i.e. Pacific Bluesman, Sebastien Tellier: Many Lives, Mr. X: A Vision of Leos Carax, The People Under the Sea). Currently, she continues to work for French television on the documentary series Thalassa as a producer and author, while developing international co-productions and high-quality art films at Petite Maison Production, which have gone on to screen at Cannes, CPH:DOX, Sundance and numerous other international festivals. More recently, Lady of the Gobi, a documentary shot in Mongolia she wrote and produced, won the BFI Grierson award.
Ori Z Soltes, PhD, teaches at Georgetown University across the disciplines of theology, art history, philosophy and politics. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum where he curated some 80 exhibitions. He is the author of several hundred articles and catalogue essays, and the author or editor of 25 books, including The Ashen Rainbow: The Holocaust and the Arts; Symbols of Faith: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Join Yad Vashem educator, Lori Gerson, as we uncover some of the most astonishing and innovative ways in which Jewish victims fought back against their Nazi oppressors. We will see how some managed to use their minds and their talents in an attempt to not only save their own lives, but also to thwart the Nazi plan to murder the Jews. These lesser-known stories of resistance will inspire you and serve as a testimony to the power of the human spirit.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
Some American veterans fought for their lives along the beaches of Normandy. Some were among the first to witness the horrors as they liberated emaciated prisoners from concentration camps. And some even helped Holocaust survivors as they began to reclaim their lives. Now, 80 years after the D-Day invasion, their stories live on. Join us in collaboration with Arlington National Cemetery for a special digital program honoring the resilience, commitment, and courage of American veterans. Learn how their sacrifices inspired some Holocaust survivors to serve their new country.
SpeakersRebecca Erbelding, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Allison S. Finkelstein, Senior Historian, Arlington National Cemetery
Remarks byAlbert Willner, son of Holocaust survivor and US Army veteran Eddie Willner
ModeratorLindsay MacNeill, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This virtual program is free and open to the public. Registration is required to receive the link to watch.
To RSVP, click here.
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Thursday, June 6, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
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Description:
Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, June 6 with the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
In honor of the D-Day landings along the Normandy coast during World War II, often referred to as the beginning of the end of the war, the Museum will feature free admission for all visitors to the Museum, film screenings, music performances, and special late hours - open until 8 p.m.
Schedule
10:30 am: Screening of Hope, Strength, Resolve
11:15 am: Screening of Ike: Countdown to D-Day
1:30 pm: Screening of Hope, Strength, Resolve
2:15 pm: Screening of Ike: Countdown to D-Day
5:00 – 7:30 p.m.: Late Night Bar in the Lobby
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.: Musical performances by the Oak Lawn Band
Visitors are encouraged to reserve their free tickets online in advance here: https://www.dhhrm.org/visit/general-admission/. Walk-ins will be accommodated based on availability.
Free admission and programming made possible through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
About Hope, Strength, Resolve
This original Museum-produced film uses original testimonies from local Holocaust survivors and Texas liberators to share their memories of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II. (17 min)
About Ike: Countdown to D-Day
This 2004 film is a dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history. (1 h 29 min)
To reserve free tickets, click here.
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Congregation Emanu El
1500 Sunset Blvd
Houston, Texas 77005
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Description:
Have you been wondering who is behind the anti-Israel chaos on our college campuses? Are you interested in how to combat disinformation about Israel on social media? Are you curious about the state of Israel’s military readiness, and about current developments with Iran and Hezbollah? Join us as our Israel Speaker Series continues with a panel of experts from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), including Dr. Jonathan Schanzer and Rear Admiral (ret.) Mark Montgomery, who will address all these questions and more.
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at FDD and host of the Morning Brief podcast, is a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he followed and froze the funding of Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Jonathan has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum. He has written hundreds of articles on the Middle East and U.S. national security.
Rear Admiral (ret.) Mark Montgomery, Senior Director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI), spent 32 years in the U.S. Navy followed by working on the Senate Arms Services Committee under Senator John McCain. Mark is an expert on U.S. defense policy and strategy, cyber warfare, Israel, and China, and was the architect of the recent legislation regarding the sale of TikTok.
The panel will be moderated by Lesli R. Gillette, the Foundation’s Senior Director of Development.
Dessert reception to follow.
To register, click here.
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Monday, June 10, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtually via Zoom
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Description:
Antisemitism flourished in early twentieth-century America. The Great Wave of Immigration from 1881 to 1914 brought 2.2 million eastern European Jews to America, fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity. They were often met with suspicion, and even violence. One such person who is emblematic of the antisemitism of this time is Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. In 1918, Ford purchased a newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, where he published antisemitic articles that would later become four volumes titled The International Jew. Based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which described an international ruling conspiracy, the article series alleged that such a conspiracy was infiltrating America. These articles ran from 1920 to 1924, reaching hundreds of thousands of readers and legitimizing ideas that otherwise may have remained on the fringe.
Join the Museum for a panel discussion about Henry Ford’s antisemitism and its wide-ranging effects with Hasia R. Diner, Professor Emerita in the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University; Steven Watts, author of The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century; and Victoria Woeste, author of Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battles Against Hate Speech. They will be in conversation with Britt Tevis, Rene Plessner Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies at Columbia University.
Hasia R. Diner is Professor Emerita in the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. She is the author of numerous books, including In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks 1915-1935 and Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way.
Steven Watts is Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, where he has won numerous teaching and research awards and served as chair of the Department of History. Watts has written eight books, including biographies of Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Hugh Hefner, Dale Carnegie, John F. Kennedy, and, forthcoming in August 2024, Will Rogers. His articles and essays have appeared in venues such as Newsweek, National Review, Salon, The Nation, The American Spectator, The American Mind, The Journal of American History, American Quarterly, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Watts has made many media appearances including the History Channel, PBS, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox, Bloomberg News, Telemundo, NPR, the BBC, and dozens of radio stations around the United States and in western Europe.
Victoria Saker Woeste is a historian specializing in U.S. legal and constitutional history. Her degrees are from the University of Virginia and the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at Amherst College, Northwestern University, Indiana University McKinney School of Law, and Cairo University Egypt. For twenty five years, she was a member of the research faculty at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Her first book, The Farmer’s Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America 1865-1945, tells the unknown history of monopolistic organizations that enabled farmers to set prices for their crops much as labor unions act on behalf of workers. The Farmer’s Benevolent Trust was awarded the Law and Society Association’s J. Willard Hurst Prize for the best book in legal history and named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1999. In dissertation form, the book received the Herman Kroos Prize from the Business History Association. Her more recent book, Her most recent book, Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech, relates the story of Ford’s antisemitic, libelous campaign against prominent Jewish Americans during the 1920s using previously undiscovered unpublished sources. Henry Ford’s War is currently in development for film and television with Leviathan Productions of Los Angeles, California. Coverage of her scholarship and her own commentary have appeared in the Washington Post, History News Network, Newsweek, the Huffington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She has published numerous scholarly articles in Law and History Review, Law and Social Inquiry, the Journal of American History, Perspectives on History, and California Legal History.
Britt P. Tevis, J.D./Ph.D., is an American Jewish historian whose work focuses on the intersection of Jews and American law with a special emphasis on the study of antisemitism. Her work has appeared in American Jewish History, American Journal of Legal History, and the Journal of American History.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024
at 9:00am -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
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Description:
$70 series | $20 per session
The schedule will include strategies and resources for teaching Holocaust literature. A guided tour of the Museum's Holocaust/Shoah wing through the lens of literature is another featured part of the program. Lois Lowry will be speaking as a part of this program to participants and will have the opportunity to get a book signed. To see the tentative schedule and for more information: Candy Brown H&HR Educator Series Session 3 2024 (dhhrm.org)
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024
at 1:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
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Description:
Lois Lowry is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including Number the Stars, On The Horizon, and The Giver Quartet. A two-time Newbery winner, Lowry is known for writing about difficult subjects, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Join us to hear from Lois Lowry about her writing process and inspiration.
$15 per person | $5 for students | Free for Museum Members
To find out more, click here.
Museum Members receive early-access registration for this program. Click here to become a Member.
Guests must purchase admission if they would like to tour the Museum.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Commemorate Anne Frank's 95th birthday with a discussion of Eva's Promise, a new documentary about Anne's childhood friend and posthumous stepsister. Join producer Susan Kerner to learn the story of Eva Geiringer Schloss and her promise to retrieve her brother Heinz's hidden artwork. Explore the film as a supplement to teaching The Diary of a Young Girl through the parallel lives of hiding, arrest, and deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944. Eva's Promise builds historical understanding and introduces a new perspective on the Diary. By introducing the part of Anne’s story she sadly didn’t live to tell, the film fosters empathy and creates context for teaching the human story of the Holocaust. Registrants will be provided access to the film one week before the webinar.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, June 13, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online course
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Description:
Aided by medical professionals who subscribed to theories of eugenics, Nazi officials declared persons with perceived or actual mental and/ or physical disabilities as “life unworthy of life” (lebensunwertes Leben). These individuals were targeted for both state-sanctioned and decentralized euthanasia programs, under which an estimated 200,000 perished. Some of the physicians who participated in the official state euthanasia program, known euphemistically as T4, were central to the development of technologies used to murder other groups in concentration and extermination camps.
On June 13, Warren Rosenblum, Professor of History at Webster University, St. Louis, will discuss his research on the history of disability during both the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. He will further explore how Nazi conspiratorial theories about antisemitism and persons with disabilities are linked through fear of the “other."
To register, click here.
This talk is part of a new lecture series on marginalized victims of Nazi persecution. “Recovering Victims’ Voices: Black, LGBTQI+, Persons with Disabilities, and Roma Communities and the Holocaust” will highlight new and emerging scholarship on often un- or underexplored victims of Nazi persecution. The series demonstrates how historical identity-based hate influences contemporary discourse about race, gender, sexuality, and disabilities.
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